Baghrir/Moroccan 1000 holes Pancakes ~~ Moroccan Cuisine

Moroccan cuisine is very much familiar for me, twice or once a week i'll cook Moroccan dishes at home coz most of my neighbours comes from Morocco. Needless to say Moroccan foods are easily available here and their foods have their important place in France. French peoples loves Moroccan foods and any Moroccan products are easily available here as much as like Chinese and Indian. Baghrir, this pancakes is the first Moroccon food i have tasted here.While am doing my Language course in Paris, i had a couple of Moroccan ladies doing their french course with me, whenever we have a get together they brings many delicious Moroccan pastries along with this famous Baghrir. I still remember the taste of the first Baghrir i have tasted with the famous Moroccan honey and butter sauce which is usually served along with this spongy pancakes. This Baghrir is literally now as Pancakes with thousand holes,these Moroccan pancakes are usually made and enjoyed during Ramadan fasting. The sponginess and the softness of this pancakes will definitely pull anyone to have more than one. This Baghrir is in my to do list since ages, eventhough the ingredients are easily available here, dunno why i didnt tried these spongy,dangerously addictive pancakes at home. Finally i made them when i was searching for a dish from Countries name starts with 'M'.

Am running a whole month of blogging marathon with world cuisine as theme, everyday i'll be posting dishes i have cooked from the different countries in alphabetical order. Today's post is from Morocco as i have to post a dish from the country name starts with 'M'.Coming to Baghrir, do you know the more holes of your baghrir shows that how delicious this pancakes will be. If your Baghrir dont have much holes then your batter is missing some ingredients. Actually to get prefect porous pancakes, baking powder or baking soda are used along with yeast while making the batter.These pancakes are prepared either with all purpose flour or fine semolina, however the authentic one always goes for the finest semolina. The speciality of this pancakes is they are cooked only on one side,this gives the light,soft,spongy,tender texture with a beautiful honeycomb like appearance to this delicious pancakes. These pancakes can be made in large quantity and can be conserved in fridge, but dont reheat it in microwave oven or a toaster, just heat them in a hot pan and enjoy.

Recipe Source: Dinners and Dreams
2cups Fine semolina
3/4cup All purpose flour
2+1/4tsp Active dry yeast
1/4tsp Baking powder
1tsp Sugar
1/2tsp Salt
1no Egg
1cup Lukewarm milk
2cups Lukewarm water.

Take the fine semolina, flour,baking powdr, sugar, salt,egg,yeast in a large bowl, add in the milk and water, mix everything well until you get a homogenous batter.

Keep this bowl in a warm place and let it sit for an hour, you can see small bubbles on the top of the batter. Your batter is ready to cook.

Heat a small pan over medium heat, give a gentle stir to the batter and pour enough batter to make a medium size pancake.

Dont spread it, cook it in simmer until the surface is porous and the batter is dry.

Baghrir is cooked on only one side, dont turn it.

Serve warm with honey or any other spread.

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